Data Sharing at a Crossroads

ByFrank Rockhold, Perry Nisen, Andrew Freeman

ARTICLE ABSTRACT

Sharing patient-level data from clinical trials can improve the quality of research and our understanding of disease and medical treatments. Various concerns have been voiced about data sharing; they involve privacy, consent, intellectual property, costs, infrastructure, data standards, free-riding researchers, and potentially erroneous conclusions. Many of these concerns cannot be totally eliminated, but they can be mitigated and managed.